Combination clothes-rack, wardrobe, and bath-cabinet.



No. 795,619. PATBNTED JULY 25, 1905.

J. JONES. COMBINATION CLOTHES RACK, WARDROBE, AND BATH CABINET.

APPLICATION FILED NOV. 5. 1904.

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JOHN JONES, OF OREGON CITY, OREGON.

COMBINATION CLOTHES-RACK, WARDROBE, AND BATH-CABINET.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 25, 1905.

Application filed November 5 1904. Serial No. 231,584:-

TO all whom, 7121' 71mm concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN J oNEs, a citizen of the United States, residing at Oregon City, in the county of Clack'amas and State of Oregon, have invented new and useful Improvemen ts in a Combined Clotl1es-Rack,VVard robe, andBath-Cabinet, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to an improved clothesrack, wardrobe, and bath-cabinet.

The object of my invention is to provide a light simple portable device that can be easily adapted as a clothesrack, a wardrobe, or bathcabinet; which can be' set up anywhere, and which can be easily knocked down for shipment or transportation and which in the setting up requires neither bolts nor screws nor outside tools.

The invention comprehends a suitable support and a series of arms pivoted thereon and adapted to turn in vertical planes, so as to lie parallel with each other and close to the support or to be extended fan-like into horizontal position.

It also comprises means for the attachment and support of top and side curtains.

Having reference to the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective with top curtain partly broken away. Fig. 2 is a side elevation partly in section. Fig. 3 shows one of the arms. 7

As herein-illustrated, A represents a back of suitable size, shape, and material adapted to be hung against the wall or on a tent-pole or any other convenient support. On the .front of this back A are two horizontallyspaced parallel segmental flanges or projections 2 3. A rod t extends around and is secured to the outer edge of the lower flange 2, which projects beyond the upper flange 3 and is suitably supported to provide a pivot for the arms 5 to be hooked over and to turn about in the manner to be described.

Any number of arms 5 may be provided, and they may be of any suitable length. In the present instance I have shown six of them and each provided with a suitable hook member 6, disposed intermediate of its ends, but adjacent to one end and adapted to be hooked over the rod 4 in suitable radial slots 7 formed in the flange 2. l

The hooks 6 extend parallel with the arms and operate as hinges when the arms are turned about the rod 4 as a pivot, and the radial slots 7 are adapted to accommodate the hooks when the arms after being lifted into horizontal position are slid back to cause their upper or in nor ends to engage underneath the flange 2, the walls of the slots cooperating with the hooks to prevent the arms moving one relative to the other after they are once extended in fan-like shape and engaged underneath the flange 2. The hook members have right-angled portions. 6, which extend through the intermediate portions of the arms a suflicient distance so that when the arms are in horizontal position, as in Fig. 1, these portions 6 serve to support the canopy or top of the cabinet, and when the arms are swung into a vertical position the portions 6 serve as hooks for supporting such articles as it may be desired to hang thereon. When the arms are distended thus in radial horizontal position, they afford asuitable clothes-rack for use in the laundry and elsewhere.

Certain of the arms may be provided with pegs, as shown at 8, which serve to hang clothes upon when the arms are either in horizontal or vertical position.

The arms being loosely hooked over the bar 4 or any suitable and equivalent pivotal connection carried by the part 2, may be easily distended for use in the manner described or dropped into vertical retired position, occupying very little space when not in actual use.

Any one or any number of the arms may be used at one time as a clothes-rack and any one and any number may be connected or disconnected Without reference to the others or without the use ofany bolts, screws, or like securing means.

The function of the two spaced flanges 2 3 aside from that of the former one providing a suitable support for the arms is the provision of suitable sockets for the insertion of the upper ends of the arms to maintain the latter in horizontal position, and while I have described these parts as flanges it is obvious that other and equivalent supporting and socket means can be provided which would accomplish the same results.

In case it is desired to rig up a temporary bath-cabinet the arms are arranged in horizontal distended shape, as described, and two straight rods or bars or outriggers 9, having suitable eyes 10 at their ends, are hooked over the inwardly-turned projections 11 on the back A and supported in either horizontal or slightly-inclined position, one upon each side of the back, by means of the upturned hooks 12. Two jointed curved rods 13 are then hooked into the outer ends of the rods or out riggers 9 and supported by suitable means, as the hooks 14:, at the ends of some or all of the arms 5, the rods 13 thus forming a curved curtain-pole or half-ring for the attachment of suitable draperies, as 15. If it is desired to inclose the top of the cabinet, a curtain 16 may be engaged around the rim 13 and hooked over the Outriggers 9. With the support suspended at a suitable height, there is thus provided a very simple cabinet suitable for bath or other purposes and affording all the privacy desired.

Thus it is seen that the device can be easily set up or knocked down, packed into small compass, and adaptable when set up to a variety of useful employments.

It is obvious that various changes in the form of the invention may be made without departing from the principle herein expressed, and I do not wish to be understood as limiting myself to the specific form described and shown.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent,

1. In a device of the character described, the combination with a support, of a plurality of radial detachable arms pivoted thereon, said support having means for holding the arms in a horizontal position, outriggers extending outwardly beyond each side of the spaced flanges one of which is radially slotted, of a plurality of radial arms having inner ends adapted to enter the space between said flanges whereby the arms are held in a horizontal position, a ring spaced from and substantially conforming to one of the flanges, hook members on the arms adapted to engage said ring said hook members extending parallel with 3. The combination witlra support having radially-supported arms and means whereby the arms are foldable from a horizontal to a vertical position, of hook members on the support,outriggers having inner ends engageable with said hook members and having eyes formed in their outer ends, curved jointed rods having their terminals engaging the eyes of the outriggers, hook members on the ends of the arms engaging and supporting the intermediate portions of the curved rods, a drapery suspended from the curved rods, a canopy extending above the arms, and means on the arms supporting the intermediate portions of the canopy.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in presence of two subscribing witnesses.

JOHN JONES.

Witnesses:

G. B. ZURIOK, (J. SoHUEBEL. 

